NURS 125 UNIT 1 EXAM WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION
Why is teaching clients and families and ensuring their proper education important in
health care? Select all that apply.
Promotes autonomy
Enables client /family to provide self-care
Enables making appropriate decisions about health care
Enables family to make decisions for client
Enables assessment of client's cognitive ability and readiness for discharge - Answer
Promotes autonomy
Enables client /family to provide self-care
Enables making appropriate decisions about health care
When teaching a client, which are significant factors to address about the client's
learning and retaining ability?
Client's reading/writing level
Will and motivation
Developmental and physical caps
Communication barriers
Cultural and religious beliefs
Family systems- ANS Client's reading/writing level
Will and motivation
Developmental and physical caps
Communication barriers
,Cultural and religious beliefs
A nurse has demonstrated to a client the appropriate cleaning and dressing-changing
technique for a postoperative wound. The nurse asks the client to return demonstrate
the correct technique and to repeat what the nurse has instructed the client about
frequency of dressing changes and the reason for this frequency. If the nurse asks the
client to demonstrate learning, what type of educational learning has taken place?
Cognitive
Psychomotor
Affective
Practical - Answer Psychomotor
What is the best definition of teaching?
A collaborative process by planning and implementing instructional activities that meet
intended outcomes as well as activities that allow the learner to learn
A behavior knowledge, skills, or attitude change to achieve common goals
A result of motivation to learn that involves planned or spontaneously occurring
situations, events, or exposures
Using teaching, counseling and behavioral modification together to achieve effective
client learning- Answer An interactive process involving planning and implementing
instructional activities that meet intended outcomes as well as activities that allow the
learner to learn
Which description best explains learning?
An interactive process involving planning and implementing instructional activities that
meet intended outcomes as well as activities that allow the learner to learn
A change in behavior, knowledge, skills, or attitudes to achieve shared purposes
The outcome of motivation to learn related to planned or unplanned situations, events,
,or exposures
Using teaching, counseling, and behavioral modification together to accomplish
effective client learning - Response A change in behavior, knowledge, skills, or attitudes
to achieve shared purposes
A client has just been taught when and how to self-administer epinephrine with an
EpiPen. Which is the best way the nurse can determine whether the client understands
and will be able to self inject the medication if needed?
Batman
The client is able to explain the purpose and demonstrate proper use of the EpiPen
The client explains a route of epinephrine delivery by identifying body regions where an
injection could be made
The client demonstrates the movements of self-injection
The client repeats the importance of why epinephrine is to be used in an allergic
reaction - Answer The client can verbally explain why it is important as well as
demonstrate the proper use of the EpiPen
What is the benefit of having a client learn in the psychomotor learning domain?
Clients can analyze information to create plans to meet their own health needs
Client is more likely to value what is learned and known; they initiate skills and changes
thus demonstrating both affective and cognitive learning
Clients will experience a sense of mastery that fosters autonomy
Clients can retain more factual information - Response Clients tend to appreciate what
they have learned and know and apply skills and changes, therefore affective and
cognitive learning occurs
A client is being discharged who has been diagnosed with a TBI after an episode of
short-term posttraumatic amnesia and some impairment of mobility. Based on the type
of injury this client experienced, which of the following is the best way for the nurse to
provide this client with discharge instructions about the use of a walker and the signs
and symptoms of disorientation, confusion, chronic pain, and ataxia? Select all that
apply.
, Provide teaching in short, frequent learning sessions
Present information slowly
Use repetition
Be satisfied with slower progress
Eliminate some elements that may be extraneous Teach in brief, frequent periods of
learning Provide information at a slow pace Repeat information as necessary Be
satisfied with progress that is slower than usual
The student nurse is instructing the client with heart failure on the topic of healthy
selections of food. The client is asked to compare and select one food over another
food, baked chicken or hamburger, and responds, "Baked chicken is healthier to eat
than a hamburger." On this question which component is the above demonstrating?
Client states eating baked chicken is healthier than eating a hamburger Student nurse
lists food options for client Student nurse asks client to choose from some options Client
listens and observes the options -Response Client states eating baked chicken is
healthier than eating a hamburger
A 3-year-old child will undergo a myringotomy with tubes in the left ear. At this stage of
his development, what is the most effective teaching approach?
Developing a teaching module in which the child has the opportunity to choose what
happens in what order
Using play and placing a bandage on the ear of a doll
Having the child verbalize what he has learned
Discussing with the child what will happen and explaining each step and who will be
involved - Response Play and putting a bandage on a doll's ear
Why is teaching clients and families and ensuring their proper education important in
health care? Select all that apply.
Promotes autonomy
Enables client /family to provide self-care
Enables making appropriate decisions about health care
Enables family to make decisions for client
Enables assessment of client's cognitive ability and readiness for discharge - Answer
Promotes autonomy
Enables client /family to provide self-care
Enables making appropriate decisions about health care
When teaching a client, which are significant factors to address about the client's
learning and retaining ability?
Client's reading/writing level
Will and motivation
Developmental and physical caps
Communication barriers
Cultural and religious beliefs
Family systems- ANS Client's reading/writing level
Will and motivation
Developmental and physical caps
Communication barriers
,Cultural and religious beliefs
A nurse has demonstrated to a client the appropriate cleaning and dressing-changing
technique for a postoperative wound. The nurse asks the client to return demonstrate
the correct technique and to repeat what the nurse has instructed the client about
frequency of dressing changes and the reason for this frequency. If the nurse asks the
client to demonstrate learning, what type of educational learning has taken place?
Cognitive
Psychomotor
Affective
Practical - Answer Psychomotor
What is the best definition of teaching?
A collaborative process by planning and implementing instructional activities that meet
intended outcomes as well as activities that allow the learner to learn
A behavior knowledge, skills, or attitude change to achieve common goals
A result of motivation to learn that involves planned or spontaneously occurring
situations, events, or exposures
Using teaching, counseling and behavioral modification together to achieve effective
client learning- Answer An interactive process involving planning and implementing
instructional activities that meet intended outcomes as well as activities that allow the
learner to learn
Which description best explains learning?
An interactive process involving planning and implementing instructional activities that
meet intended outcomes as well as activities that allow the learner to learn
A change in behavior, knowledge, skills, or attitudes to achieve shared purposes
The outcome of motivation to learn related to planned or unplanned situations, events,
,or exposures
Using teaching, counseling, and behavioral modification together to accomplish
effective client learning - Response A change in behavior, knowledge, skills, or attitudes
to achieve shared purposes
A client has just been taught when and how to self-administer epinephrine with an
EpiPen. Which is the best way the nurse can determine whether the client understands
and will be able to self inject the medication if needed?
Batman
The client is able to explain the purpose and demonstrate proper use of the EpiPen
The client explains a route of epinephrine delivery by identifying body regions where an
injection could be made
The client demonstrates the movements of self-injection
The client repeats the importance of why epinephrine is to be used in an allergic
reaction - Answer The client can verbally explain why it is important as well as
demonstrate the proper use of the EpiPen
What is the benefit of having a client learn in the psychomotor learning domain?
Clients can analyze information to create plans to meet their own health needs
Client is more likely to value what is learned and known; they initiate skills and changes
thus demonstrating both affective and cognitive learning
Clients will experience a sense of mastery that fosters autonomy
Clients can retain more factual information - Response Clients tend to appreciate what
they have learned and know and apply skills and changes, therefore affective and
cognitive learning occurs
A client is being discharged who has been diagnosed with a TBI after an episode of
short-term posttraumatic amnesia and some impairment of mobility. Based on the type
of injury this client experienced, which of the following is the best way for the nurse to
provide this client with discharge instructions about the use of a walker and the signs
and symptoms of disorientation, confusion, chronic pain, and ataxia? Select all that
apply.
, Provide teaching in short, frequent learning sessions
Present information slowly
Use repetition
Be satisfied with slower progress
Eliminate some elements that may be extraneous Teach in brief, frequent periods of
learning Provide information at a slow pace Repeat information as necessary Be
satisfied with progress that is slower than usual
The student nurse is instructing the client with heart failure on the topic of healthy
selections of food. The client is asked to compare and select one food over another
food, baked chicken or hamburger, and responds, "Baked chicken is healthier to eat
than a hamburger." On this question which component is the above demonstrating?
Client states eating baked chicken is healthier than eating a hamburger Student nurse
lists food options for client Student nurse asks client to choose from some options Client
listens and observes the options -Response Client states eating baked chicken is
healthier than eating a hamburger
A 3-year-old child will undergo a myringotomy with tubes in the left ear. At this stage of
his development, what is the most effective teaching approach?
Developing a teaching module in which the child has the opportunity to choose what
happens in what order
Using play and placing a bandage on the ear of a doll
Having the child verbalize what he has learned
Discussing with the child what will happen and explaining each step and who will be
involved - Response Play and putting a bandage on a doll's ear
